Work Week 1

First week is almost in the bag. In this week, I've gotten 3 hours of training on how they do things in terms of people management (kind of shittily — 2 weeks vacation, 3 sick days, no benefits for 6 mos), 3 hours on general SR&ED/Grants/Loans programs we are writing for and how we get money for each of these, 3 hours on SR&ED specifics and all day yesterday to do a hands on training exercise writing a SR&ED narrative. (SR&ED is a federal/provincial tax credit program that reimburses companies for doing R&D work).

Today I've started work on a real life client. I do think I'm going to enjoy the actual work aspects. It's going to involve wading through 'records' (most companies don't keep great records of this work) to pick out salient points and write a persuasive narrative about how they followed scientific method to learn or build something new. Each client is different, each effort is collaborative with an Account Manager so I'm not lost in the weeds without guidance, and it has the potential to be new and interesting regularly. I just think the company itself has done a shitty job of making the employees feel taken care of.

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